MY YOUNG ROOS CREST GREW ns is really red, he crowed

[chooks4life]

I didn't know that! That's interesting.

Ah, it's only proportional, the banties look like they have bigger eyes only because their bodies are smaller, whereas bigger chooks seem to almost outgrow their eyes, lol.

 

[chicksurreal]

Ah, it's only proportional, the banties look like they have bigger eyes only because their bodies are smaller, whereas bigger chooks seem to almost outgrow their eyes, lol.

Oh! Lol!

I see what you mean.

 

[silkymom]

well i got some egg pics,


they are big and we love em, happy the roo is finally after 6 weeks trying to hold his own with the hens, also i wonder one hen lays cream colored eggs, i have 5 red stars, and one black star, is it the black doing it? just wondered, thanks

 

[chicksurreal]

Wow! Gorgeous eggs, silkymom!

I don't know which chickens are laying which eggs, but they all look beautiful!

 

[chooks4life]

well i got some egg pics,


they are big and we love em, happy the roo is finally after 6 weeks trying to hold his own with the hens, also i wonder one hen lays cream colored eggs, i have 5 red stars, and one black star, is it the black doing it? just wondered, thanks

I think you're right, I find with my mongrel hens that even years after first ID matching hen and egg, I can still look at a clutch and know who laid what. They are that specific.

(I regularly double-check to make sure, getting a visual confirmation by watching the hens lay, and yes, it's the same hens laying the same shape, color, size, texture, bloom-degree, eggs)...

To me, at first glance, those paler eggs are all very 'cookie-cutter' similar in appearance, tone, shape, size, I do believe it's all from the same hen.

Over time egg size can change, particularly in hens approaching their second year, or entering or leaving a laying cycle, as well as due to diet changes, with shell color and quality being the main changes there (not counting interior contents quality which goes without saying)... But drastic changes are not common.

The egg laying industry depended in large part on the development of breeds for the purpose, and it's one of the most reliably heritable traits there are, which made it so achievable. If you have a hen who's a good layer, and you like the size and quality of her produce, breed her and chances are you'll get more of the same. You can often also tell family line influence, too.

Best wishes.

 

[silkymom]

thanks, all, i would like to incubate some eggs, dont think these girls sit like my silkys did?but the roo has fluffy cheeks , isnt that a fatal gene? well well see i guess,

 

[chooks4life]

thanks, all, i would like to incubate some eggs, dont think these girls sit like my silkys did?but the roo has fluffy cheeks , isnt that a fatal gene? well well see i guess,

The fluffy cheeks/ear tufts are a lethal gene, but the beard is not. Which one does your bird have? They can have both. It just means a percentage will die, not all. So you can still breed it, that's why we still have that gene.

You won't know if a hen of any breed broods unless you give her a few years to see, some commercial layer breeds will brood after their second year, others at any time... But I'd suggest you get a proven mother hen, because just because a hen sits doesn't mean she will mother.

Best wishes.

 

[dan26552]

No it's not fatal (that I know of) beards or muffs as their called are a common trait to a lot of chicken breeds

 

[silkymom]

hard to see but he has ear tufts, he was sup[osed to be cross between silver laced wyandotte, and rhode island red , but dad looks kinda like him and there was a ee hen in the coop. i do have pics of dad?

 

[chooks4life]

hard to see but he has ear tufts, he was sup[osed to be cross between silver laced wyandotte, and rhode island red , but dad looks kinda like him and there was a ee hen in the coop. i do have pics of dad?

If there was only that rooster in the pen, and he's a definite purebred SLW, pics of him are irrelevant, he couldn't get the beard or ear tufts from the father. The mother must be the EE, unless the RIR or the SLW were not purebreds. I'd bet the mother was the EE though.

I don't see real ear tufts on him. I see his little ear covert/patch, but no real tufts. He seems to have a beard and muffs but that's it. Some more info on EEs etc:
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Best wishes.